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Forest products

Hull, the UK’s largest softwood timber-handling port, greatly increased its capacity for handling forest products with the opening of the Finland Terminal in 2000. Hull is on the main softwood timber trade routes from Northern Europe, the Baltic states and Scandinavia. The Finland Terminal, with more than 70,000 sq m of covered storage, is a hub for Finnish paper producers. The port handles 1.5 million cu m of timber each year, and offers regular liner services carrying timber. Considerable areas of covered and open storage, plus value-added services, such as timber-treatment and sawmills, are also available on the port estate.

Timber traffic is also handled at the specialist terminals operated by Ahlmark Shipping UK Ltd, Global Shipping Services Ltd, Finnforest, Rix Shipping Ltd, Harding Cargo Handling Ltd, North Sea (Lumber) Sales Ltd and Leafe & Hawkes Ltd.

  • Finland Terminal offers 70,000 sq m of covered accommodation for the storage of paper, pulp and panel products from Finland and is the northern UK hub for the Finnish forest products industry. The principal user of the terminal is a consortium of Finnish paper producers, and twice-weekly ro-ro sailings are operated by Finnlines from Helsinki, Hamina and Rauma, with additional sailings from Pietarsaari and Puhos using conventional vessels
  • Regular conventional cargo liner services are operated by Ahlmark Lines, Baltic England Line, Rix Baltic Line and TTS Shipping
  • Open and covered accommodation is available for all forest products, including kiln-dried and specialist joinery timbers
  • Jewson Internal Timber Supply has its own depot and sawmill located on the port estate. Other value-added services such as timber treatment are also available on site
  • Experience in handling Scandinavian and Russian softwood, processed West African hardwoods and logs is available

  • A range of forest products such as chipboard, plywood, fibreboards and veneers are also received

 

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Hull is the UK's leading timber port
Hull's Finland Terminal offers 58,000 sq m of covered storage for paper and paper products
 
 
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